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Which mike memoli is reporting there, the white house has been watching very carefully as they try to figure out how to set the president up as best they can for his meeting with putin starting on wednesday. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. i think what you are seeing in this interview in one sense is kind of what it's going to be like for president biden in this meeting with president putin, because the issues that we raised are the issues that president biden will raise. what president putin does again and again is try to deflect, to change the subject, to change what aboutism. this is a goo...

Unpick exactly his messaging and what he's trying to achieve. well, you know, i think we can clearly say, there is nothing bewildering about president putin. what he does, his playbook, is actually pretty predictable. and for quite some days before the interview, i and my team went through his previous comments and interviewed and looked exactly how he addressed each issue and here's what he does. he goes back to resentments in the past. he talked about what aboutism, if you ask him a question about russia, he says, well, what about america? he denies, denies, denies. another thing that he doe...

That, i think, is the biggest danger for president biden. on cyber, for instance, president putin said, if we have cyber criminals, we'll hand them over to you, as long as you hand over your cyber criminals to us. but we don't have cyber criminals. we're not attacking russian companies. having ransomware. and i think when you go down that road, that what about aboutism, that's very dangerous. i hope president biden will not engage in that. >> and ambassador mcfaul, if you could also pick up on something that keir said, this elephant in the room of putin's role in funneling, more than funneling...

Towered over the russian leader, looking down on him and pointing at him as he spoke. don't touch the voting machines. don't touch the data. stay out of the systems. the cia could see they were trying to get in. the book is called "battle for the soul." inside the book who wrote is, tell us more about what we didn't hear about that last meeting? >> thanks for having me, alicia. what was going on, that was a g7 meeting in china, and it wasn't a formal summit. obama took him to task and they were standing there with a bunch of aides, including susan rice at the time and interpreters. putin was d...

Has had a hunger strike, he's at risk of dyeing of kidney and heart ailments. this is a guy who jailed alexi navalny, his main opponent, and turns around saying the u.s. does it. >> there's always an element of what aboutism from putin. and i talked to alexei navalny last summer. he was very clear about the risks he was facing. he knew what they were. but he was exposing putin's corruption and that's putin's vulnerability. to connect to your last segment, joy, what putin is up to is depressing dis-sint and throwing people like alexei navalny in prison and poisoning people in russia. in this co...